Website design update rolling out today

From today, a small number of you will begin to see some exciting updates to the website. Here’s what you can expect:

Fully redesigned artist, album and track pages

We’ve updated these pages, giving them a fresh new look and a better layout. We’ve also added some more data and improved the functionality of these pages. Here’s what you can expect:

A new header that better shows off the artist image and gives every artist page a unique look and feel

More metadata on artist pages (e.g. when an artist was born, when a band was formed, etc.) and similar artists shown at the top of the page for easier exploration

Events are back! We’re now showing some upcoming events on the artist overview page.

A new scrobble stats graph on all pages, which shows the last 6 month listening trend (look out for those Christmas spikes)

Bigger album artwork on the album page. No need to expand any more!

Album tracklists can now be sorted by popularity, allowing you to easily see which tracks are the most popular on an album

We’re now showing similar albums on album pages, and more similar tracks on track pages

We’re also now showing some artist info and similar artists on album and track pages, so it’s easier for you to learn more about any new music you discover

For those of you browsing the website on your phone, the mobile experience on these pages has been vastly improved with a better mobile layout and finger-friendly tap targets

Updated tracklist and chart design across the whole website

In tandem with the artist, album and track page redesigns, we’re rolling out a new tracklist and chart design to the whole website. This update brings some usability improvements and provides additional functionality:

Tracklists now lead with the track title (or album title if it’s a list of albums), for better information hierarchy and for consistency with most other music players

Tracklists without chart bars now use a 2 column layout, which makes it easier to scan through a list and distinguish track titles from artist names

We’re now showing album artwork in tracklists whenever we can. Click the album art to go straight to the album page!

Chart bars can now be scaled to any size, allowing them to more accurately represent trends

We’ve added some useful options to the more menu (accessible by hovering on a row and clicking the the 3 dots icon, or by tapping the 3 dots icon on mobile). For example, you can go straight to your library from your recent tracks.

On mobile, you can now see which tracks you have loved in a tracklist, and also love or unlove a track directly from the more menu!

We’ve also made tap targets bigger on mobile, so it’s much easier to tap on the correct link or icon when browsing.

Other small design changes

You’ll also notice some other small design changes across the whole website, for example:

New button styles

Some new icons

A fun new love button animation! <3

Please note...

Not everyone will be able to see these design changes right away. We will be rolling them out to a small percentage of users first, while we monitor performance and fix any bugs. Eventually, all users will see the design changes. Additionally, some artist, album and track sub-pages will have the new design, but there are some that we’re still working on. These will be updated soon.

We’ll be continuing to roll out these new styles to more pages in the future, but for now we hope you enjoy the new designs. Please let us know your thoughts and if you spot any problems.

Just logged in and noticed the new design.While it does look great, can we fix the issue where the artist name gets cut off under "Top Albums" in the grid view.The actual album title wraps around to the second/third line, but for an artist with a long name, it does not.

I already got that refreshed version since I'm subscriber user, I like the new design, but I gotta be honest to you. I would appreciate more if you lay all your time and effort on cleaning up the tags and capitalization, mistagged album/song titles and duplicate albums (that are coming from digital stores) instead of relaunching the design. There is plenty stuff to do that is more important than the design.

I just paid for a subscription and noticed that my profile page has larger bold text, double spacing and the song title listed before the artist's name like some horrible looking jukebox. I find this to be an extremely ugly design and there doesn't seem to be a way of changing it back. I much prefer the page design for those who have not subscribed and I will not be renewing if I can't revert to the previous layout.

I haven't been following this thread so I don't know if this has come up already: with the new design the red bars for most of my top artists (underneath the number of plays on the profile page) are shorter than the number itself. It's ok for my top ten artists, but after that the bar gets shorter and shorter - like this: Screenshot.

I think the minimum length for the red bars should be increased - it should always be at least as long as the number itself, like on the old design: Screenshot.

I know this is not a big deal, just thought I'd mention it as it doesn't look so hot.

Ignore the people saying to keep the old design. People said the exact same thing a in late 2015/early 2016 when the "old" design was the new design. Now it's changing again and you have the same thing all over again. People just don't like change but given time most adapt. Bring on the new design.

Ignore the people saying to keep the old design. People said the exact same thing a in late 2015/early 2016 when the "old" design was the new design. Now it's changing again and you have the same thing all over again. People just don't like change but given time most adapt. Bring on the new design.

I never had a problem with Song - Artist. For me it makes more sense. When talking to people I would say: "Hey you know that song _____ by the band ____." IMO song is 1 and artist is 2. The way the new layout is configured (the last time I saw it was in October) song titles and artists were disaplayed in padded columns, which I thought looked nice.

My only critique was the fact that after a certain amount of letters the artists name gets cut off and it becomes: "instertartistnamehere.......". I hope this will be fixed when it's rolled out for everyone.

I simply don't get this. Some time last week the page layout did in fact revert to the previous look and I was very pleased that you had actually listened to reason. But now it has inexplicably changed back to the horrible new, chunky look with the listings in reverse order.

I don't get it: it eas clearly stated that the revert was temporary ! Why had you placed expectations on this ?
I'm much more comfortable with this new layout; I would probably chose a artist -song arrangement, but I could live with current one just the same; otherwise this layout is much better and useful.

So today I became a subcriber. But the whole design of the site changed, and it's a horrible design. Beside it being super ugly it's unpractical too.For example, you can't even completely see the titles of tracks that don't even have a long title:

Everything takes more space than it needs/used to:Why is it so much to the right? Why is the artist on the right? Why do the album icons have so much padding? I'd rather have them bigger with less padding. And again, some titles dont fit anymore because of this dumb design that would've fit before.

This is just plain ugly, not user friendly at all and too big, the banner takes up like half my screen when it obviously doesn't need too.

Overall this looks uncredibly professional. It looks like someone tried really hard to copy other sites to make it look professional but failed really hard. The people who made this need a serious UX course, this design is far from user friendly.I really really really hope this is never getting released in this state because honestly it ruins a lot of the usability of the website for me.

Besides all this, my real qustion is: is there a way to go back to the old design? or is my only option to cancel my subscription and wait a month?

I didn't even get an answer to my question, it was just moved here? I guess the answer is all I can do is cancel my subscription.

I really hope you guys take feedback seriously, I'm really afraid because of how prematurely you released the 'new site' a couple years back that lost you most of your users. At least make everything smaller and it would look 100x better. Everything is so big now I have no overview, I browse the site now at 75% and it's way more torelable.

You were moved to this thread because you can find the answer you are looking for here if you do a bit of scrolling.

The design update will eventually be rolled out to everyone, and isn't meant to be a subscriber-only perk.

As for your criticism about the size of "everything", I agree. I don't even have the update yet, but I already use the site at 75%. I'm not too optimistic that the devs will ever do much about it, since this whitespace abounding, mobile-friendly web design is the web design style that's been "in" for a while now. I find that the quality of desktop experience in terms of overview and information density has been worsening throughout years all over the internet, not just on Last.fm.

Basically it looks cool, especially new artist page look and new scrobble rating (would be great to see same graphic on personal page by showing personal day scrobbles)

- New recent plays making less space for long track names - it makes messy look.

- A LOT of translation problems and untranslated blocks (can i give a help with Russian language, are you taking beta-testers on board?)

- Very very slow. Every Last.fm page is like absolutely another website.. idk why Chrome loading every page that long, this is pretty sad, cause its a long-term problem from the beginning of redisign.

- "Charts" page translated on Russian as "Graphics" - totally worng. It should also translated as "Чарты". Anyway charts are so poor right now (i know its all about new database) but there needs some more statistics?

- "Live" is the most useless page on Last.fm so far. I know it was a start page for new users, but its really making no seance to visit for users

- "This shout is unavailable" can somebody tell a point of these undeleted blocks of blocked or censored shouts in a Shoutbox?

I also dislike how they designed the new „recent tracks“ and other charts lists. It is just messy and clunky, especially the padding, the shortened songtitles and the ordering. But I hope they fix that (can’t be THAT difficult?) because it could be really nice then.

I love the new design. as for the recent tracks ordering, song - artist is not that bad, you'll get used to it. it took me a week but i don't mind it now. as long as scrobbling works we'll be fine i think ;)

I visited the Artist page, and I’m not happy with the way
how you designed.

Similar
Artists should be on the top of the page on the right side.

Recent
listeners should be on the right side at the bottom of statistics not
between an artist biography and shouts.

Top
listeners and listeners you know should stay where they were when the old
design existed not at the bottom.

Your
listening habits should also be on the right side of the screen.

The
current layout for someone's listening habits is a mess, and it’s too
small to see your listening count and your avatar when you see yourself on
the Artist page.

Trending
tracks should be somewhere so everybody could see them not at the bottom.

The
tab "all tracks" is missing. I cannot find it unless I didn’t
visit the Artist page and clicked view all tracks.

The
tab "albums" is also missing. I cannot see it unless I didn’t
visit the Artist page and clicked view all albums.

It
wouldn’t be bad to do something about the album art because it looks messy
and disorganized. I don’t see a reason why it should stand at the right
side of the screen when it already stands as a banner on the top of the
page.

Artist
- tracks should be fixed.

Artist
page structure is a bit strange. We got similar artists block duplicated -
at the top of right sidebar and also below the shouts. I believe that
sidebar one could be replaced with listeners block as it better suits
sidebar column and gets out of main column's context. This is a terribly
mobile-aimed idea, and looks messy as hell with all its scrolling needed
to get most of the important information.

Top listeners and recent listeners should be separated; not attached.

These are the only issues I found; otherwise, it doesn’t
look that bad. I hope you’ll take what I said into consideration and fix these
main issues.